I started as a geologist
and became a technologist.
Now I help leaders find the signal in messy data.
Patterns. Systems. People. Decisions.
- Experience 20+ years in technology
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Leadership
72+
managers and engineers
led at Microsoft
Field notes for clearer decisions.
Recent thinking on leadership, data, and building what matters.
The hard part is rarely one missing report.
It is the distance between the systems, the people interpreting them, and the decision that cannot wait.
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Disconnected information
Financial and operational data lives in different systems, with no shared view of the business.
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Manual reporting
Spreadsheet-heavy work slows the team down and makes every answer harder to trust.
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Decisions under pressure
Leaders need to act before every source agrees, often without the context behind the numbers.
Experience where accuracy and coordination matter.
“John's superpower is program management and empowering teams to deliver results. His optimism, good humor, and ability to conjure fun out of thin air make him a true force multiplier.”
I learned to read layers before I learned to build platforms.
Data should serve people, not the other way around.
I studied economics and geology at Whitman College and spent three years as a Senior Staff Geologist. Field work taught me to look for patterns in complex systems. I carried that instinct into web development, network analysis, and enterprise data work at ADP, Microsoft, and Launch Consulting Group.
That path led to Truegility and Clarity. The tools changed; the purpose did not: give people a clearer view of what is happening so they can make better decisions.
Working through a data problem that should be clearer by now?
Tell me what is disconnected, what decision is waiting, and where your team keeps losing time.